Dick Greene at work on a column in the newsroom of the old Muncie Star in earlier years. In 40 years, he produced more than 10,000 of his homey columns, titled Seen and Heard in Our Neighborhood.

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For the thousands of Muncie folks who met him, and perhaps especially those who worked with him, Dick Greene was an unforgettable figure.

Tall, thin almost to the point of gauntness in his later years and friendly to a fault, the soft-spoken Muncie Star columnist was most of all a gentleman, one who could always be counted on for a pleasant greeting and an attentive ear as he mined this community for the stories and observations that filled more than 10,000 of his newspaper columns over the years.

Now, those columns - which were published under the title Seen and Heard in Our Neighborhood - have ...